You’re Beautiful by Simon Armitage

June 15th, 2007

I found this poem a while ago, I was originally going to write about a different poem, but I found this one more fitting. As usual you can read it with Flash (for some inexplicable reason) or on a page of photographs.
Even if you don’t like poetry (I hear some people don’t) have a read […]

Synaesthesia

May 14th, 2007

syn·aes·the·sia n.

A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualisation of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by […]

Sometime a Fire

March 24th, 2007

She had blown out the other candles, lit just the night stub at the bedside table and sat there, the Englishman’s body facing her in silence after the wildness of his drunken speeches. ‘Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound. A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire.‘ She could hear the spill of […]